It’s striking that despite the consensus historians’ search for liberalism’s exceptional roots in US so few considered whether the narrowing of economic freedom to the contract was the outcome of a society that had made the wage relation appear emancipatory
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Yep, American slavery shaped the American conception of freedom. Which is one reason for seeing slavery & its repercussions as at the core of American history & not just relating to South or African-Americans.
11:00 AM - 12 Jul 2020
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